I have to be honest: Christmas this year was a bit of a blur. But in a good way. After months of planning and shopping, it all went by so fast! A little part (okay, a big part) of me is excited to relax now, but regardless, we had an incredible time celebrating with family and friends.
Our annual Friends Christmas Photo at the candlelight service at church. It's one of my favorite services of the year, to see all the candles lit and everyone in their fancy clothes and the guys without flat ... Read More

December has been a whirlwind. I usually try to do a weekend recap, but I'm exhausted and still recovering from the last few weeks, so this is the best it's gonna get!
We took the kids up to Snowflake Lane in Bellevue for the first time and it was awesome. If you're local, it's worth the drive and the traffic. And the mess of people. :) It was raining and there was a 2 hours wait to eat at every restaurant we went to, but it was a blast. I think you just have to go up expecting it to be ... Read More

We are scaling waaaaaaay back this Christmas in terms of our time. We've always volunteered at church during the months of November and December, but this year we had a Family Meeting and decided it was time to take a year off.
Now that we have all this extra time, we are packing in everything Christmas we possibly can.
The kids came up with this idea to do 25 Days of Christmas Movies. ABC Family plays Christmas movies every night, but we decided to skip the commercials and start our own DVD ... Read More